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On 25 April 2019 in Colombia, a baby rests on his mother's shoulder at the Friendly Space (CATM) in Cucuta, where UNICEF provides learning activities for migrant children and parents from Venezuela. The programme is supported by UNICEF, in coordination with OIM and the Colombian Chancellery.

Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to increase the production capacity of vegetables they sell on the local market.

Sri Lankan security forces have exchanged gunfire with an armed group in Kalmunai in the eastern region of the country.

The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it expected to send about 300 additional troops to the U.S. border with Mexico in roles that could allow them to come into contact with migrants, breaking past policy against interaction with them.

With thousands of guards deployed across the country to provide security for places of worship, Muslims in Sri Lanka answered the call to prayer Friday, less than a week after the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings in churches and hotels in the island nation's capital blamed on Muslim extremists.

Girls participating in the International Girls in ICT Day organised by ITU, at the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (25 April 2019).

The U.S. Embassy in Colombo has advised people to avoid places of worship in Sri Lanka over the coming weekend, citing Sri Lankan reports that additional attacks may occur.

France on Wednesday observed it first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" provoking a furious reaction from Turkey.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, addresses the General Assembly meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace.

A Sri Lankan official says a local militant group, with help from an "international network" is responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and injured 500 others.